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Rubber seed oil and flaxseed oil supplementation alter digestion, ruminal fermentation and rumen fatty acid profile of dairy cows

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  04 July 2019

Y. Pi ,
L. Ma ,
K. M. Pierce ,
H. R. Wang ,
J. C. Xu  and
D. P. Bu
Y. Pi
Affiliation:
State Key Laboratory of Animal Nutrition, Institute of Animal Science, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Beijing 100193, China College of Animal Science and Technology, Yangzhou University, Yangzhou 225009, China
L. Ma
Affiliation:
State Key Laboratory of Animal Nutrition, Institute of Animal Science, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Beijing 100193, China
K. M. Pierce
Affiliation:
School of Agriculture and Food Science, University College Dublin, Belfield, Dublin 4, Ireland
H. R. Wang
Affiliation:
College of Animal Science and Technology, Yangzhou University, Yangzhou 225009, China
J. C. Xu
Affiliation:
Kunming Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Kunming 650201, China
D. P. Bu*
Affiliation:
State Key Laboratory of Animal Nutrition, Institute of Animal Science, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Beijing 100193, China Hunan Co-Innovation Center of Safety Animal Production, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Changsha 410125, China CAAS-ICRAF Joint Laboratory on Agroforestry and Sustainable Animal Husbandry, Institute of Animal Science, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Beijing 100193, China
*
†E-mail: budengpan@126.com
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Abstract

Rubber seed oil (RO) that is rich in polyunsaturated fatty acids (FA) can improve milk production and milk FA profiles of dairy cows; however, the responses of digestion and ruminal fermentation to RO supplementation in vivo are still unknown. This experiment was conducted to investigate the effect of RO and flaxseed oil (FO) supplementation on nutrients digestibility, rumen fermentation parameters and rumen FA profile of dairy cows. Forty-eight mid-lactation Holstein dairy cows were randomly assigned to one of four treatments for 8 weeks, including basal diet (CON) or the basal dietary supplemented with 4% RO, 4% FO or 2% RO plus 2% FO on a DM basis. Compared with CON, dietary oil supplementation improved the total tract apparent digestibility of DM, neutral detergent fibre and ether extracts ( P < 0.05). Oil treatment groups had no effects on ruminal digesta pH value, ammonia N and microbial crude protein ( P > 0.05), whereas oil groups significantly changed the volatile fatty acid (VFA) profile by increasing the proportion of propionate whilst decreasing total VFA concentration, the proportion of acetate and the ratio of acetate to propionate ( P < 0.05). However, there were no differences in VFA proportions between the three oil groups (P > 0.05). In addition, dietary oil supplementation increased the total unsaturated FA proportion in the rumen by enhancing the proportion of trans-11 C18:1 vaccenic acid (VA), cis-9, trans-11 conjugated linoleic acid (CLA) and α-linolenic acid (ALA) ( P < 0.05). These results indicate that dietary supplementation with RO and FO could improve nutrients digestibility, ruminal fermentation and ruminal FA profile by enhancing the VA, cis-9, trans-11 CLA and ALA composition of lactating dairy cows. These findings provide a theoretical basis for the application of RO in livestock production.

Keywords

vegetable oilslinolenic aciddigestionruminal metabolismlactating cows
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Research Article
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animal , Volume 13 , Issue 12 , December 2019 , pp. 2811 - 2820
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© The Animal Consortium 2019 

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These authors contributed equally to this work.

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